Samurai Oni
NARA

An unnamed woman, Akio never asked.

He approached Akio as soon as he went inside even now still attached to him. He who came first has more than the opportunity to serve Akio.

“This injury ...,”

Something made the woman curious. When the woman said something while touching the corner of Akio's lips, several women around her spontaneously noticed Akio.

The scar looks like a torn wound, looks very creepy at least when seen by women. But this woman was different, she saw it as if she had seen the wound.

“Master, can this lowly me know the name of the master?” ask the woman.

“Hey don't cheat and play alone. I also want to ask his name,” whispered his friend softly.

“Listen to it. Whether he will answer or not.”

Akio did not reply at all as usual. He slightly lowered his head while grasping the woman's hand and then removed it.

Kizu was panicking there. 'Don't get caught, don't get caught, don't get caught.' Kizu always said that in her mind.

“Master did not want to answer it because he did not want to say it?”

“I'm jealous because he holds your hand,” whispered the woman who was his friend.

“Ya.”

In a few moments they noticed, Akio put on a faint smile and made all the women startled to fall silent with wide eyes. They seem to be bewitched.

Tuk, tuk!

Akio then tapped his fingernails, then changed the shape of the hand as if he was holding a pen or something.

“Master wants to say something by writing on a piece of paper? Alright, I will prepare it immediately.”

One of them rushed to pick it up, after which Akio wrote a few sentences on the piece of paper.

"Thank you for worrying. It's a wound because someone, no longer need to think long."

Even his handwriting made the woman still remain silent. The handwriting was so beautiful it could not comment. They just silently looked at the writing and occasionally looked at Akio who was completely invisible because his eyes were covered by long bangs.

“Tuan—!”

Afterwards, Akio suddenly stood up. Just like Akio, Kizu sensed the air of yokai's presence for a moment. Some samurai still didn't realize it.

So that made Akio act on his own.

“Master,” muttered Kizu who stood up from her seat.

Akio jumped over the guardrail from the second floor, went down one way and soon he chased barefoot. Akio took out his wooden sword, and prepared to aim for a point that moved unnaturally among the crowd.

“What is this?!”

“Hei! What are you doing!?”

“Yokai! There's yokai!”

They all cried out hysterically so as to make that one black dot move faster than usual. Makes Akio difficult to target.

Over and over again he uses the tip of the sword to stab him but Akio's efforts end in vain as the crowd has noticed a yokai hiding among them.

The movement as fast as a snake slithering, no trace or sound that caused it made Akio difficult to see, hear or feel his presence.

One by one the samurai around know the existence of the yokai. They seem to be behind Akio. Likewise with the samurai in the Flower House, they all immediately rushed out to finish off the yokai immediately.

One of them revealed something that seemed to interest Akio. For a long time they (yokai) did not appear, whether this is a sign or something like that but certainly the current situation is still fairly bad.

“Uchigoro Nara has come!” screeched someone.

The person who had just called it then appeared, he caught up and was currently running right next to Akio who was chasing the yokai.

“I Uchigoro Nara, will help you!”

The one who at first glance looked arrogant, he sped up his running pace and left all the samurai who until now were still behind them.

The black speck is believed to be the same yokai as the yokai that left the deepest wounds for many in Gion Matsuri. That type rarely shows itself and once it appears it will make a big mess.

Before it becomes big, it would be better to be killed immediately. That's what Uchigoro Nara thought.

However, every step made by him never shortened the distance between the yokai. For a moment Akio stopped, he then raised his head to look up at the sky.

“Hey, you're there! Why not catch up with that yokai immediately?” The samurai who finally caught up patted Akio on the shoulder. He left without waiting for an answer from her.

The weather today is hot. And Akio felt something was awkward.

Uchigoro Nara,

“I get you, Yokai black!” his screeches while jumping into a large enough wooden box, he used it to stand and made his second jump even wider.

He swung the sword over his head and smashed it into the black speck. Until the tip on his sword blade pierced the streets. Some of the people who saw it were amazed.

“What a great, Uchigoro clan!”

“Great? I think this is just a little bit of his share. Where was the man I saw? He should have gotten here,” Nara murmured.

Akio did not follow because he realized that the black speck was a diversion. It is unexpected that the yokai he met was indeed slick than expected. Clever fooled, and now most of his body is still near there.

Shaped a black blob that is attached to one of the shadows of a person. Little by little his existence grew.

Once he realized that his existence was getting closer, he immediately left and after a while he was reunited with Uchigoro Nara.

“You!”

“Do not move from there,” said Akio a little firmly.

The man's reflexes stopped, and let Akio swing his wooden sword, looking as if Akio was about to kill Nara but in fact he was aiming for his shadow.

“Mr Nara!”

The shadow belongs to Uchigoro Nara himself who turns out to be mostly from yokai hiding. But Akio did not seem happy.

Immediately he put the wooden sword back into his clothes, and then turned around to leave immediately but Uchigoro Nara held him back.

“Hei! It turns out you can too!” Nara embraces Akio's shoulder with a familiar snob.

Akio nodded and then quietly mute completely.

While Kizu stood with his body trembling incoherently. He was near there but certainly did not dare to meet Akio in his current form.

In addition, the geisha who had seized Akio's attention pensively kept silent in his own daydream.

“What happened to you? All the men here are all gone, maybe we should go home soon?” His partner came to entertain.

But all he thought about now was Akio.